pigeonburger
8hr ago
It's not a competitive shooter, it's an extraction shooter, like Tarkov. That means sometimes you'll end up in a fight with other players, but in my experience the ARC Raiders playerbase is quite chill, at least when I play solo. 95% are not going to initiate PvP, most are happy just saving someone's ass for the fun of it. The PvE enemies are overwhelming but also previsible which makes them fun to plink at. The biggest issue I would say the game has is that it's repetitive and has a hard time keeping me occupied for more than an hour or so at a time.
pigeonburger
8hr ago
I keep putting hours into ARC Raiders. It's low commitment to just go do a run or two. I also keep playing Marvel Cosmic Invasion, which was phenomenal at start but later on in the game it starts piling up more frustrating enemies. I don't know how I feel about that.
pigeonburger
1d ago
Oh, don't get me wrong, I don't think that guy exists. But one can position themselves as him until he gets elected and the media shrieks at him constantly anyway.
So hypothetically, if I think the President is giving illegal orders to the military, or might, it’s out of bounds to say that to soldiers?
If you think so, you point to which orders you mean. Also, it's probably not up to a partisan politician to point it out, but to military instructors to explain it.
Something like “a soldier’s duty to disobey illegal orders is extremely serious and can have extremely serious consequences don’t fuck around with it as part of your political posturing.”
Pretty much. The military relies on obedience from soldiers except in the case of grossly illegal orders. "Don't execute illegal orders" is not for complicated matters that requires judges and courtrooms to parse, let alone those thorny enough that they often end up at the Supreme Court level, it's for obvious "I order you to set these unarmed civilians on fire" stuff. If those senators had any examples of those they should have been able to point them out. Otherwise, they're just messing up the chain of command by encouraging grunts to apply discretion to stuff that's way, way, way above their station to decide.
pigeonburger
1d ago
There's also some less committed Republicans who could be driven to exhaustion by the constant "everything Trump does is unprecedented and threatens the republic if not the entire planet" background messaging of the media. Positionning yourself as the guy that will still be a Republican but won't have the media shriek constantly about is good if you feel that these people outnumber Trump-only (or Trump-approved-only) voters.
pigeonburger
1d ago
DeSantis was the most surprising
DeSantis is not surprising. He's trying to thread the needle between not angering Trump while trying to get the media's approval as the "least bad Republican" for his next run.
pigeonburger
1d ago
The problem is the implication. We can play dumb and act like either are just innocent reminders of facts that are usually irrelevant because the preconditions for them (illegal orders or seditious senators) doesn't happen often, but what really matters is that the timing and the choice of messengers carries with it a neon flashing sign implying those preconditions have happened.
What do you make of knives? They're pretty uncontroversially deadly weapons, also have non violent uses and I would guess more Americans have at least one than cars.
I think the differenciator for deadly weapon shouldn't be whether there is a non violent use for it, but more what the likely intent is if someone attacks you with that object. If someone attacks you with a knife, or a car, you can surmise the intent is deadly, or at least the attacker has little regard whether his attack will cause death. Unlike a taser, or some blunt weapons (like a baton; a hammer I would probably consider lethal).
pigeonburger
2d ago
Or any of other innumerable chances to defect and/or make-a-buck that people would surely come up with were this to become normalized?
Yeah, I don't know how someone can wave away the fact that it's possible to, on stock markets, bet against a company, and that it's trivial for a CEO to ruin a company in a sudden, stroke-of-a-pen way that makes frontrunning everyone on benefitting from the collapse guaranteed. The individual incentives becomes to wreck every single company.
Come on. I am pretty sure that most women, feminist or not, would be disgusted at the thought of their partner having sex with dogs and would not need "Animals can't consent" as a justification for their disgust.
Of course they would be disgusted, daguerran was not denying that. But they would be unable to justify it as anything else than lack of consent because disgust is outside of the moral vocabulary of the modern liberal west (as per Haidt's observations on WEIRD morality). Try explaining why it's disgusting without resorting to a variant of "it hurts the animal" (or imagine a situation where the animal initiated, and is clearly unhurt by it). You'll inevitably end up sounding like a rabbi or an imam explaining why eating pork is impure. Of course, in many situations it probably also hurts the animal, so the objection is also partially genuine, but it's a different impulse that led to digging for a post-hoc justification for condemnation.
Similarly he posits that jealousy is outside that vocabulary, and that the justifications for porn-negativity given are post-hoc, even if they might still make a genuine point sometimes.
A good test for that would if someone offered as a solution that porn be mandated to be instructive in helping men bring women to orgasm, but otherwise could still be of hot younger women. Do you think the complaints would stop? Do you think there's any amount of accomodations that could be done for the goalposts to stop moving? Personally, I think he's right on the money that the only accomodations that would do it are those that make either porn unthreatening to the sexual value of those complaining about it, or so unenjoyable that men stop watching.
pigeonburger
3d ago
“I’ll have ninety-nine problems, and my VP can’t be one.”
So as a presidential candidate she had ninety-nine problems and her running mate being a bitch was one.
pigeonburger
4d ago
What I don't get from the second group is the pig-headedness refusal to accept workable compromises. Plug in hybrids are (cost and technical complexity aside, and the first's less a concern on the second hand market) mitigating almost all the issues of electric cars, but no one hates them as much as electric car fans. Daily commutes use no gas or a thimbleful of gas, and longer trips are not limited by infrastructure outside of already implemented gas stations.
pigeonburger
5d ago
If you let private corporations accumulate capital without forced redistribution it's not communism or socialism, yes, obviously.
pigeonburger
6d ago
This is what makes entertainers dangerous. I hear friends repeat and absorb arguments from stand-up comedians all the time and it pisses me off; being entertaining is not the same as being correct, and entertainers, be they writers, artists, comedians, directors... do not have access to a source of cosmic wisdom that makes them more likely to be right about anything than anyone. In fact, many of them live very atypical, non-representative lives that I would not be surprised made them more often wrong than the modal person of similar intelligence.
I keep telling people that but no one IRL agrees with me. Everyone is addicted to hearing "but what happened to characters after!!!" and few writers manage to write the stakes down or at least sideways in a sequel, the appeal of "recontextualizing" a perfectly good original as being only one part of an overarching, higher scale and higher stakes narrative is too strong. But unless you execute that perfectly, you actually damage the original. If you avoid scaling up, a lesser sequel does not damage the original, look at Back to the Future; part 3 is certainly lesser, but it can be ignored entirely if you want. It does not cheapen or weaken 1 and 2.
What was nice about Stranger Things from the start was not the characters, it was setting and vibes, those could and should have been preserved and the characters ditched.
pigeonburger
17d ago
Judges and jury duty as a concept was thought of by mutant deontologists (the English) for a race of mutant deontologists, which humans are not.
https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/c-46/section-718.04.html
718.04 When a court imposes a sentence for an offence that involved the abuse of a person who is vulnerable because of personal circumstances — including because the person is Aboriginal and female — the court shall give primary consideration to the objectives of denunciation and deterrence of the conduct that forms the basis of the offence.
https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/c-46/section-718.201.html
718.201 A court that imposes a sentence in respect of an offence that involved the abuse of an intimate partner shall consider the increased vulnerability of female persons who are victims, giving particular attention to the circumstances of Aboriginal female victims.
It's clownish to me that specific additions were made to the criminal code to protect Indigenous women, but that since the overwhelming amount of violence done to them is domestic violence from Indigenous men, these protections are essentially cancelled out by provisions to protect Indigenous offenders.
pigeonburger
22d ago
The unstoppable force meets the unmovable object
A man in Nova Scotia was condemned to 5 years for battery on his wife. The appeal court reduced the sentence to 3 years because the original judge did not properly take into account the systemic difficulties that first nations offenders have faced through their lives (a precedent set by the Supreme Court in 1999 requires taking the circumstances of the accused into consideration for sentencing). The crown prosecution is appealing this to the Supreme Court now on the basis that the appeal court has not taken into account recent additions to the criminal code that require taking into account the particular vulnerability and frequent victimisation of first nations women.
pigeonburger
22d ago
He might be right, but if you dig deeper; why does the military incentivise marriage?
I would hazard a guess that it's because the military values married men more; it considers them more reliable, more trustworthy, more stable than unmarried men.
If society were to value marriage, its different actors will reward it in the immediate too... You'd see newlywed discounts everywhere, family discounts, we'd be back to (depending whether your jurisdiction did away with them) tax benefits for marriage over living with a partner, etc...
pigeonburger
24d ago
Barring a large upheaval due to AI that I'm not seeing happening right now (though I'll admit it's not impossible), my profession is going to be in demand even if I lose my job. Even if I were to be unable to find a company to hire me directly, I'm confident I could sell my services as a consultant, there's a lot of companies that are too small to have a full time sysadmin on staff but would like to have one consulting. If I suddenly became unemployable in polite society, some of the skills I've developped around cyber-security would probably still make me employable in less polite society.
I'm currently in an apartment, but I'm looking into moving in a house soon, on a minimal mortgage (or no mortgage if I can swing it). That's going to go a long way towards securing my life from shocks. I'm also eyeing (small scale) homesteading; planting, canning, preserving, having chickens. Maybe hydroponics. In the meantime, I try to keep myself in a position where I could reasonably live in and work from my car if for some reason that became necessary. (As to why someone who's almost at the point of buying a house mortgage free is also preparing for the eventuality he might have to live in his car, it's a mix of timing and my pathological need to prepare and have backup plans, even if I have friends and family that would definitely take me in as Plan B to E).
I recently had an epiphany with regards to what I really want to do as a hobby, I want to go canoe camping and fishing. Equipment for these, to a high amateur level, has a relatively low price ceiling (ie, these are not really money pit hobbies after the initial investment). Once I have a paid off / almost paid off house, my paid off car, my hobby equipment, my food expenses reduced through homesteading, I think I'll be quite secure. My planning puts me at that point within the next year or two, without accounting for my wife starting to work within a year or so.
pigeonburger
26d ago
That's definitely a possibility too!
pigeonburger
27d ago
Indians specifically seem to have a particular penchant for online drama.
This is wild speculation on my part, but I would hasard a guess that it might be because Indians on average don't particularly look big or imposing compared to others, and thus feel like they are often disrespected in person. But online, theoretically, no one knows what you look like, so they inflate their online egos to compensate.
pigeonburger
28d ago
Does it count as "abnormal working conditions" for a police officer in a very peaceful municipality to shoot a suspect to death as part of an intense physical struggle?
I'll be honest that's a tough one I don't really have a clear answer to. On one side, that's unlikely to be what they ever had in mind would happen that that day, even with decades of experience. Then, I think how silly it would sound for infantrymen to make the same claim, that having to shoot at people in a warzone is abnormal for a soldier, even if they're from a country that hasn't had a combat deployment in decades. I think on balance I would err on the side of the dissent, no matter how unlikely it is to happen, using deadly force is something police officers train and prepare for as it is a possible outcome of an intervention. If it was so unlikely and abnormal, then they wouldn't be armed at all times in the exercise of their functions, they'd have guns at the station or in their cars for "abnormal" emergencies.
That said it seems a quite a bit shitty to refuse compensation because it would not be "abnormal working conditions" and I'll echo the sigh of relief that that law has been amended, even if I can imagine situations where people abuse those claims or get into jobs they should be gently discouraged to be in due to being a poor emotional fit for it. Hopefully there's other criteria that would stop an EMT from claiming PTSD compensation from simply seeing blood.
pigeonburger
28d ago
I think every classic Trek (TOS to ENT) is very different from the other.
And holy cannoli the first episode of DS9 has to be the heaviest ever.
TNG's first episode literally puts humanity on trial, though.
I don't think you're not getting it, we just have a different gaming profile. The progression is frustrating and randomised, but personally I just put out of my mind. All it does is inform which buildings I'm likely to target for looting in a run but other than that I'm happy just getting random stuff and shooting ARC. I don't hate the looking through trash aspect. And the shooting is satisfying to me.
I'll grant that the out of run inventory management is annoying and especially coupled with the slow progression. I'm filling up with materials to build stuff I just don't have the blueprints or levels to build; and there's little use in building a bunch of entry level equipment, you'll always be able to build them right before a run.
It's not game of the year, but it's the low time and mental commitment that makes it so I keep coming back for a handful of runs a day.
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